That's probably because they aren't banana flavored at all. Maybe Wikipedia is right and they are flavored with artificial banana flavor, but if so they are not even remotely reminiscent of bananas in flavor.

For the love of all that is good in this world, how could any one of you say a word against the succulent taste and aroma of circus peanuts? Just to look at a photo of them is to smell them, to smell them is to taste them. Obviously, you guys were not brought up on Tang, Space Sticks, Pixie Stix and Candy Corn (which was a year round staple and not shoved into a corner of Christmas). Folks... we're talking a decade before Pop Rocks. And the nest news of all was that it didn't matter how old they were. We didn't need no stinkin' expiration dates! Why (cough cough, geezer spits out her dentures and sinks to the floor with a smile on her face...

Obviously, another fabulous skull (and by far the best use for circus peanuts ever). But is anyone else wondering why oh why the mental giants of confectionery decided to make banana-flavored peanuts? Peanuts that taste like bananas—where's the logic in that? And yes, they're god-awful.

I love the tie-in between the two projects/blogs! There's no way to escape showing my age when I admit that this reminds me of a time in my childhood, when we'd go to Sears. The one near us would sometimes have the orange peanuts in an orange flavour sometimes but most of the time had them in that funky wannabe banana flavour. I would have to decide between the peanuts and maple nut goodies.

Gotta go. My right knee just gave out on me again and I have to yell at the kids on my lawn.

From the way you all talk, it sounds like they don't particularly taste like banana, but rather like an accepted "banana flavour" flavour. Sort of like all of those candies that are supposedly grape, but just taste "purple".

Do they taste like those marshmallow bananas that actually are shaped like bananas?

Speaking as someone who actually worked for candy company that manufactured these little gems, I do have to agree that they are banana flavored. They are not quite the same flavor as the marshmallow bananas, but are sweeter if that is even possible. I am Canadian and had never seen these before working at this company, apparently they are an American favorite.

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